Longville is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 545 people and just one neighborhood, Longville is the 281st largest community in Louisiana. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Longville, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Longville, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Longville’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Longville does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $37,650.00.
Longville real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Longville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Longville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 63.64% of Longville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Longville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Longville who work in legal occupations (36.36%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Longville is worth considering.
One downside of living in Longville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Longville, the average commute to work is 52.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Longville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Longville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small town, Longville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Longville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.64% of the adults in Longville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Longville in 2022 was $24,954, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,816 for a family of four. However, Longville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Longville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Longville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Longville include French, German, Irish, English, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Longville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 47.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.3% of America.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 13.8% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.3% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.5% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Longville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 39.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.4%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Longville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (13.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.8%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (25.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (13.8%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (85.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.